German Federal Criminal Police records 486 offences against media and journalists in 2025 2025

German federal police recorded four hundred eighty-six offences against media outlets and journalists in twenty twenty-five. The violence crosses the political spectrum: left-wing offenders committed most physical assaults, while attackers linked to foreign ideologies accounted for the largest number of violent incidents overall. Right-wing extremists were responsible for one hundred fifty of the offences. The data illustrates ongoing threats to press freedom from multiple political quarters.

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